getting information at leader meetings, making sure other leaders remember meetings).
The People Who Serve and Support You at Camp — Taken from Young Life’s How to Thrive and Survive at Camp
ASSIGNMENT TEAM Includes the speaker, the program directors, the head leaders, the work crew bosses, the summer staff bosses and the camp manager. These people are staff and sometimes volunteers from areas around the country who come to camp to work for a month and then go home. PROPERTY TEAM The people who work at camp all year long. This team includes supervisors, administrators, mechanics, carpenters, cooks, housekeepers and store clerks. WORK CREW Is the team of teenagers who serve your meals, clean your cabins, landscape the lawns and do the hard, manual labor of camp. These kids are believers from all over the country who come to camp and serve for a month with no pay. You can minister to these kids as they minister to you by paying them proper respect, encouraging them and communicating your thanks. SUMMER STAFF Includes the college students at camp who run the ropes course, lifeguard at the pool, wrangle the horses, staff the snackbar and store and staff a number of other more specialized areas of camp. What you can provide for the assigned team: • A positive, helpful, team-spirit attitude. • Support and encouragement. • Punctuality to meetings, meals and events. • Enthusiasm. • Secrecy: we let the schedule surprise kids as it unfolds. • Positive leadership of your kids. • Wise discipline of kids when necessary. Keep in mind that there is more than one way to skin a cat. And no, catskinning is not one of the team activities at camp. That’s just a politically incorrect colloquialism to say don’t get bent out of shape if the speaker doesn’t tell the story the way you would or if the program directors play songs differently than you do at home. The assignment team has prepared long and prayed hard for their responsibilities at camp. Please refrain from making insensitive or rude comments to these servants. 59